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U.S. Department of Justice:
Leader of Oath Keepers and 10 Other Individuals Indicted in Federal Court for Seditious Conspiracy and Other Offenses Related to U.S. Capitol Breach — Eight Others Facing Charges in Two Related Cases — A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment yesterday …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Capitol Riot Really Was an Insurrection — A response to Jeffrey Scott Shapiro on the legal definition in the U.S. Code. — Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is correct that insurrection under 18 U.S.C. 2383 is a crime with specific elements ("Stop Calling Jan. 6 an 'Insurrection,'" op-ed, Jan. 6).
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Washington Post:
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes charged with seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 Capitol riot — Stewart Rhodes — founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, whose members are accused of being key players in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress — has been indicted and arrested, officials said Thursday.
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New York Times:
Oath Keepers Leader Charged With Conspiracy in Jan. 6 Investigation — The F.B.I. arrested Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right militia, in a major step forward in the investigation into the attack on the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump. — Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder …
CNN:
Oath Keepers leader and 10 others charged with ‘seditious conspiracy’ related to US Capitol attack
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The Daily Beast, PBS NewsHour, Raw Story, WITF, HillReporter.com, USA Today, Washington Post and Alternet.org
Associated Press:
Sedition case against Oath Keepers one of few in US history
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
R.N.C. Signals a Pullout From Presidential Debates — The Republican National Committee says it will require candidates to pledge to not participate in debates run by the Commission on Presidential Debates. What would replace them, if anything, was unclear.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Sinema stuns White House with floor speech — BREAKING — The FBI today arrested STEWART RHODES, the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, and charged him (and 10 others) with seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection, report WaPo's Spencer Hsu and Devlin Barrett.
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NBC News:
Biden plans executive action on police reform to revive stalled issue
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Washington Post and Roll Call
Insider:
Sen. Mitt Romney says the Republican National Committee ‘would be nuts’ to block GOP candidates from participating in presidential debates
James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal Drama Critic, Dies at Age 65 — Missouri-born author and musician wrote biographies of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and H.L. Mencken — Terry Teachout, a prolific New York-based biographer and essayist who wrote exuberantly about drama for The Wall Street Journal …
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Terry Teachout, 1956-2022 — Terry Teachout published more pieces in COMMENTARY than any other writer in the magazine's 76-year history. He was a monthly contributor for a quarter century—first as classical music critic and then as critic-at-large. On just two occasions in the 13 years …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court blocks workplace vaccine requirements, allows requirement for health-care workers — The Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the Biden administration's vaccination-or-testing requirement on the nation's largest employers, expressing doubt that there is legal authority for such a broad mandate.
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Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
The Supreme Court Goes Anti-Vaxx
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Slate, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Blocks Biden's Virus Mandate for Large Employers
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Gavin Newsom / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: Newsom: Why I will not release Sirhan Sirhan on parole — In 1968, Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy just moments after Kennedy won the California presidential primary. Sirhan also shot and injured five bystanders. Decades later, Sirhan refuses to accept responsibility for the crimes.
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Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee says tech firms are not cooperating, issues subpoenas — Chairman cites repeated unanswered requests for information from Facebook, Twitter, Google and Reddit — Congressional investigators on Thursday issued subpoenas to Twitter, Reddit and the parent companies of Facebook …
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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Glenn Beck has Covid again after refusing vaccine: 'It's going into my lungs' — Right-wing talk radio personality Glenn Beck on Wednesday said he has contracted Covid-19 for the second time and complained about the disease's effect on his lungs. — “It's starting to go into my lungs today and a little disturbing.
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The Hill
BBC:
Prince Andrew loses military titles and use of HRH — The Duke of York's military titles and royal patronages have been returned to the Queen, Buckingham Palace has said. — Prince Andrew, 61, will also stop using the style His Royal Highness in an official capacity, a royal source said.
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Telegraph, Metro.co.uk, The Daily Beast, The New Daily, The London Economic, Rolling Stone, Gawker, The Daily Wire, Al Jazeera, NPR and Hollywood Reporter
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Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted on federal charges she lied on loan, mortgage documents — A federal grand jury has indicted Baltimore's top prosecutor Marilyn J. Mosby on charges she lied on a mortgage loan application to buy a Florida property and made false statements …
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, U.S. Department of Justice, TheBlaze and Washington Times
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Patient in Groundbreaking Heart Transplant Has a Criminal Record — David Bennett Sr. was involved in a serious assault nearly 35 years ago, court records show. — An ailing Maryland man who received a pig's heart last week in a pioneering transplant procedure has a criminal history stemming …
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Washington Post, New York Post and Twitchy
Telegraph:
Two parties held in Downing Street as Queen and country mourned death of Prince Philip — The leaving events for No 10 staff were held on the eve of the Duke's funeral and excessive alcohol is believed to have been consumed — Downing Street staff drank alcohol into the early hours …
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Insider, Metro.co.uk and The Guardian
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
Your Bubble is Not the Culture — I don't have anything against cultural and ideological bubbles. My family is a bubble. We have a host of in-jokes that no one else will get, and a bunch of tastes that many others do not share. We regularly eat a dish called “tuna quiche,” …
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HotAir and El American
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Michigan woman arrested near Capitol had loaded shotgun, and she wanted to talk about Jan. 6, police say — U.S. Capitol Police said they arrested a Michigan woman on multiple gun charges after she drove to Washington and told officers she wanted to talk about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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United States Capitol Police, Daily Kos, The Hill and Raw Story
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Scores of doctors and scientists sign a statement condemning personal attacks against Fauci. — More than 200 leading American doctors and scientists — including four Nobel Prize winners and a former Republican leader — have signed an open letter in support of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci …
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Shawn Johnson / NPR:
A Wisconsin judge rules absentee ballot drop boxes are not allowed under state law — A Waukesha County judge has ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes are not allowed under Wisconsin law, a ruling that could potentially remove an option for voting ahead of the state's crucial midterm elections.
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USA Today and Political Wire
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
Navient Reaches $1.85 Billion Deal Over Predatory Lending Claims — Navient, once one of the country's largest student loan servicing companies, reached a $1.85 billion deal with 39 states to settle claims that it had made predatory loans that saddled borrowers with crushing debts they were highly unlikely to repay.
Fabiola Cineas / Vox:
Protecting voting rights isn't enough to save democracy — Election law expert Richard L. Hasen on the problem of election subversion — and what can be done to stop it. — About a year after President Joe Biden's inauguration — and following the one-year anniversary of an insurrection …
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Politico, New Republic, Washington Times, New York Magazine, New Jersey Monitor and IJR
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Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
The New Voting Rights Bill Is the Law We Need Right Now
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